Records
Why Assata Shakur Must Be Supported
BLA bulletin laying out the political case for supporting Assata Shakur and Sundiata Acoli.
Why Free Huey?
Background, arguments for and against supporting Huey Newton's defense.
Why I Am Facing 75 Years
First-person statement by J20 defendant Carlo Piantini on the charges he faced.
Why We Support the Stateville Four: A Political Statement from the Stateville Prisoners Organization
A Political Statement from the Stateville Prisoners Organization.
Window on Oppression
Reproduction of clipping on major points of Steve Whitman's piece, "The Crime of Black Imprisonment". 7/6/1987
With the State Marshalling Resources to execute Teenagers, Can We Risk an Unfair Trial?
Flyer about concerns with the case People v. Polk in which two African-American teenagers are facing the death penalty.
Women Across the U.S. Join Hands In Solidarity and resistance
Advertisement for "An evening of women speakers and music in solidarity with Palestinian, Iraqi and Kurdish women."
Women Against Imperialism Discussion Series
Main Themes: Women's bodies in the 90s, the military and women, Zionism, Palestine, antisemitism, women and activism.
Women Against Imperialism Study
Questions and readings focusing on imperialism, colonialism, and Palestine.
Women Against Imperialism Study Session #4 - Palestine and Zionism
On Zionism and colonialism.
Women Deface the Presidio Army Base
Account of the demonstration at Presidio Army Base in protest of US imperialism.
Women In Prison: How it is With Us
Assata Shakur's reflection on the conditions of women in U.S. prisons. Reproduced as part of the Boston ABC zine distro.
Women Political Prisoners in the United States
Version of educational pamphlet. Virtual holdings only
Women Prisoners [Flyer]
This flyer includes information drawn from an issue of Ramparts about the various facilities housing women prisoners, conditions inside women's prisons and jails, and a few statistics related to women's imprisonment.
Women and the Fight Against COINTELPRO: A Evening of Solidarity with Black Freedom Fighters
Agenda for the evening's benefit Women and the Fight against COINTELPRO.
Women and the Klan
On the recruitment of women in the KKK, their leadership role and how the Klan's strategy of exploiting the women's movement aids white male supremacy.
Women in Prison: How It Is With Us
Assata Shakur's account of conditions for women political prisoners, written from prison.
Women's Bail Fund Letter
This letter requests support for the Women's Bail Fund and women detained at the Women's House of Detention. It indicates a new location of the Women's House of Detention at Riker's Island and describes conditions of isolation and forced labor at Riker's. It also provides some examples of prisoner's organizing and building power inside.
Women's Bail Fund: Platform and Program
Two typed pages on yellow paper describing the mission and purpose of the Women's Bail Fund. It lists and elaborates on 7 key tenants of the organization, which are as follows: "1. We want power to determine our destinies as women. 2. We demand an immediate release of all prisoners held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. 3. We demand an en...
Women's Control Unit: Marianna, FL
Fall 1992 article: "This paper was written to break with the secrecy and silence on Shawnee Unit; to recognize women as equal participants in the struggle to shut down all control units; and to be responsible to ongoing political struggle."
Women's Liberation and Imperialism
PFOC document on Women's Liberation and Imperialism Preface; Overview; Historical Roots; Structure of Women's Oppression Under Imperialism; Double Shift; Work in the Home; Women's Oppression and Waged Labor; Institutions of Social Control; History of Women's Struggles in the US; Women and the Anti-imperialist Left; I like to think of Harriet Tubman
Women's Spring Sock Hop
Flyer for benefit of the International Women's Day Demonstration Committee.
Words from a Sister in Exile
When revolutionary political activist Assata Shakur (previously JoAnne Chesimard) made a daring escape from prison in 1979, she- like our fugative slave ancestors- became legendary in the Black community. Here she speaks about her life in Cuba today.
Workers World, Vol. 9 No. 23 (November 16, 1967)
Issue of the Workers World Party newsweekly. Coverage includes "Hanging Judge and Stacked Jury Convict Oquendo in Fifteen Minutes!" — the Brooklyn draft-refusal trial of Black war resister Edward Oquendo, defended by Conrad Lynn — plus "Black Defiance in the Navy" (hospital corpsman Edward R. Lynn's statement campaign at the San Diego Naval Hospital and the...